dandles

The word “dandles” has 2 syllables: dan-dles

It's pronounced as /ˈdændəlz/


What is synonym and antonym for dandles?

In the thesaurus, “dandles” has 24 synonyms and 26 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for dandles along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for dandles

  • appeases
  • babies
  • cockers
  • coddles
  • contents
  • cossets
  • delights
  • gladdens
  • gratifies
  • humors
  • indulges
  • mollifies
  • mollycoddles
  • mothers
  • nurses
  • obliges
  • pacifies
  • pampers
  • placates
  • pleases
  • satisfies
  • soothes
  • spoils
  • wet-nurses

Antonyms for dandles

  • abuses
  • controls
  • disciplines
  • harasses
  • harms
  • hurts
  • ill-treats
  • ill-uses
  • injures
  • maltreats
  • manhandles
  • mishandles
  • mistreats
  • misuses
  • molests
  • neglects
  • oppresses
  • outrages
  • overlooks
  • persecutes
  • restrains
  • slights
  • torments
  • tortures
  • victimizes
  • violates

Meanings of dandles

  • verb
    1. To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
    2. To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.
    3. To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.

Example Sentences

  • She dandles her little brother affectionately.
  • The nanny gently dandles the baby to calm her down.
  • In the park, mothers often dandles their infants in the sunshine.
  • The grandmother lovingly dandles her grandchild in her arms.
  • He softly dandles the kitten, trying to comfort it.

On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to dandles, such as: abuses, appeases, babies, cockers, coddles, contents, controls.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

babies

  • accomplishments
  • achievements
  • acquirements
  • appeases
  • arrivals
  • attainments
  • babes
  • baby
  • bambini
  • bambinos
  • bantlings
  • bawlers
  • beings
  • bellyachers
  • birds
  • bleaters
  • blockbusters
  • bodies
  • bods
  • boys
  • brethren
  • brood
  • brothers
  • celebrities
  • characters
  • cherubim
  • cherubs
  • children
  • cockers
  • coddles
  • complainers
  • completions
  • conquests
  • consummations
  • contents
  • cookies
  • cossets
  • coups
  • crabs
  • creatures
  • crybabies
  • culminations
  • customers
  • dandles
  • deeds
  • delights
  • devils
  • ducks
  • eggs
  • executions
  • faces
  • family
  • feats
  • fellowmen
  • fellows
  • fish
  • fishes
  • foundlings
  • fruitions
  • fulfillments
  • fulfilments
  • fussbudgets
  • fussers
  • fusspots
  • gains
  • girls
  • gladdens
  • gratifies
  • gripers
  • grumblers
  • grumps
  • guys
  • heads
  • hits
  • hominids
  • homos
  • hoydens
  • human beings
  • humanoids
  • humans
  • humors
  • implementations
  • imps
  • individuals
  • indulges
  • infants
  • issue
  • jackpots
  • juveniles
  • kiddies
  • kiddos
  • kids
  • kvetchers
  • kvetches
  • litter
  • little ones
  • lives
  • malcontents
  • megahits
  • men
  • minors
  • miracles
  • moaners
  • mollifies
  • mollycoddles
  • moppets
  • mortals
  • mothers
  • neighbors
  • neonates
  • newborn
  • newborns
  • nippers
  • nurses
  • nurslings
  • obliges
  • offspring
  • pacifies
  • pampers
  • parties
  • people
  • performances
  • personages
  • personalities
  • placates
  • pleases
  • preemies
  • premies
  • progeny
  • realizations
  • satisfies
  • scouts
  • screamers
  • selves
  • skills
  • slobs
  • smashes
  • snivelers
  • somebodies
  • sons of man
  • soothes
  • sorts
  • souls
  • specimens
  • spoils
  • squawkers
  • squirts
  • stiffs
  • successes
  • sucklings
  • tads
  • things
  • tikes
  • toddlers
  • tomboys
  • tots
  • triumphs
  • tykes
  • urchins
  • victories
  • wailers
  • weepers
  • wet-nurses
  • whiners
  • whippersnappers
  • wights
  • winners
  • wins
  • younglings
  • youngsters
  • youths

necks

pampers

  • appeases
  • babies
  • cockers
  • coddles
  • contents
  • cossets
  • dandles
  • delights
  • gladdens
  • gratifies
  • humors
  • indulges
  • mollifies
  • mollycoddles
  • mothers
  • nurses
  • obliges
  • pacifies
  • placates
  • pleases
  • satisfies
  • soothes
  • spoils
  • wet-nurses

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